Word: paloczi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journalist George Paloczi-Horvath spent five years in a Communist prison; his teeth were knocked out, a rib broken and his face scarred with lighted cigarettes. He and his cellmates organized a miniature university, lecturing to each other on history, literature, geography, etc. One man knew two dozen operas by heart, sang all parts and reproduced the orchestral interludes...
...cell. "Of course, we all know that you are innocent," said Kadar, but "by doing this you will render a historic service to the Communist movement." Rajk confessed in court-and was hanged. A little later Kadar himself was arrested. "After his release," wrote Hungarian Journalist George Paloczi-Horvath, "he told the Central Committee how he was tortured. A lieutenant colonel of the security police had beaten him until he fainted. When he came to, the man was standing above him urinating in his face...
...George Paloczi-Horvath (who fled Hungary during the revolution last October) was a state witness in Kadar's trial in 1951. "Kadar's once handsome face had become distorted," he recalled. "He had a terrified and at the same time ferocious expression." Judged guilty, Kadar was sent to solitary confinement for three years. Wrote Paloczi-Horvath in the London Sunday Times of his own five years in a Communist prison: "There is a chance for expiation, for facing oneself and one's past squarely. But solitary confinement, utter degradation and an ocean of pain leave curious traces...
Kadar's chief torturer was Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Farkas. Not only did Farkas make Kadar submit to utter degradation, but he had him castrated. The turn of the Communist wheel made Janos Kadar Premier of Hungary last October. Forecast Paloczi-Horvath: "Now he can take revenge. He has power...
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